Angel City Culture Quest

The Dance Camera West Programming Committee is led by Cati Jean. The festival is produced by Amber Adams. The DCW Board of Directors is George Lugg (president), Lionel Popkin, David Rousseve, Sophie Robertson and Lynn Tejada.

Trailers:

DCWFF 2022 20th Anniversary Promo Trailer

DCWFF 2022 TRAILER (Version 1)

Tickets and Program Information now available atdancecamerawest.organd on venue websites.
Please follow the links below to find out more and purchase tickets.

Buy individual tickets, weekend passes or
a full 2 weekend pass!

Ink & Linda plus other films, http://www.dancecamerawest.org/2220arts

March 24 to 26 - 2220 Arts & Archives ($15-$75)

March 31 - April 2, 2022 at 8:00pm at Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz (TRK) in-person. ($15-$30)

Full Festival Pass($100)

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It's the TwentiethSeason of Dance Camera West and once again the renowned festival will screen the top selections chosenfrom around the world. That's75 filmsselected from a record number of 400 submissions! The six days of in-person and virtual screenings will happenMarch 24 to April 2, 2022.

DCW, once againpartnerswith LA presenterThéâtre Raymond Kabbaz to present three nights of international films from March 31 to April 2,as well as with the newly founded2220 Arts & Archivesformerly The Bootleg Theater) fromMarch 24 to 26, 2022.

All films are Los Angeles premieres, with many World and American premieres, including a special world premiere screening of Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a Pandemic andsix filmsproduced by the recipients of theDCWFinishing Fund for Underrepresented Filmmakers funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

*Programis subject tochange. Pleasecheck wwww.dancecamerawest.org for updates.

Leah Shane Dixon, The Spaces In Between

Shane Dixon is an artist in multiple media, whose diverse body of work explores fusion of oppositional polarities, transcendental themes, abstract symbolism, and humankind's unique role within the natural world.

A graduate of Pratt Institute and the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, Shane draws from their bi-coastal life experience, informed by the rich tapestry of artistic, historic, cultural, literary, musical and filmic trends of both Los Angeles and New York City.

A second generation computer geek, Shane fuses digital and video-based art making with the foundation art practices of drawing, painting, installation, and photography. In addition, Shane has curated many group art shows and other curatorial projects in Long Beach and Los Angeles.

Shane's recent exhibitions include:

• Illuminations Loiter Galleries in Long Beach - An exhibit of Projections & a Mini-retrospective of last 18 years
• TEMPLE: Eternity in One Hour, 2004, a video within a round frame
• Projecting Possibilities July 2021 at The Helms Design Center, Los Angeles

Shane works in: acrylic painting, digital & abstract painting, video installation and projection art, plastic assemblage, visual music, art curation, music tutoring. And they explore: tessellations and color theory

Shane has created digital works almost entirely for 18 years but recently they have been fusing digital and paint into a single object.

Shane uses the pronouns They/He

http://leahshanedixon.com/

Going back to 1991, when Ann Weber first started working in cardboard, she had been experimenting with many different materials because, after graduating from CA. College of Arts and Crafts, [now CA. College of the Arts] she said knew she wasn’t going to continue working in clay.

Ann came to school as a production potter, from the craft world. For 15 years she had a pottery studio/store in upstate New York in Ithaca. Later, in New York City, she made pottery that she sold in pottery stores, specialty stores and in craft fairs up and down the east coast.

Eventually, she burned out on the business so she took a class with Jim Mackons at Greenwich House pottery, who was doing one of a kind pieces. Mackons told Ann to attend graduate school and to go to the west coast because that’s where artists were using clay as an art material.

Ann had all kinds of schools to choose from and she chose Viola Frey, because she was a woman — “the lone woman in the pack.” Ann had seen her work at the Whitney and a show in 1984 in New York City.

When she came out to California, she said she had no idea what to do. She had ended her lease on her pottery studio in New York, she sublet her apartment on Perry St. between Bleaker and W. 4th and she didn’t know if she would return to New York.

“I just knew I wanted to stop doing what I was doing,” Ann said. “But I really was in a huge quandary and had no idea how to find my way from production pottery to making art. So I started sitting in on Viola’s classes where she would sit on the potter's wheel, giving classes to the freshmen and 18 year-olds and showing how you could make little lumps, and then pile them up and make a sculpture and that was interesting to me.

Her teacher, Viola Frey said, “You are a beginning artist for the first 10 years out of school,”

So, Ann experimented with plaster, painting, printmaking, paper mache, fabric by Klaus Oldenberg and her father had a canvas company from which he sent rolls of canvas to her. She did that for four to six years. Then she moved into a second-floor studio in Oakland. Carrying plaster up the two flights of stairs wasn’t an option and there was no elevator.

“I had all these cardboard boxes that were flattened in the middle of a new 100 sq. ft’ studio,” Ann said. “I thought, make the forms out of cardboard, who cares what the material is. I found that I could cut them into strips and use a [plier] stapler to staple them together and make large organic forms, like I had been making them in clay. I felt like it was just another material to experiment with but it's now been decades, over three decades and I feel like there are infinite possibilities.

“I came to art school thinking they were going to teach me how to be an artist. Their idea, at art school, is if someone is coming in, it’s their journey. The artist has to figure out how to find a way in art.”

She knew I was struggling and she told me to go look at some real art. Look at some Kandinsky ...”

~ For the rest, listen to our episode and how Ann had her Eureka moment.

https://annwebersculpture.com/

So you can get to know Jai Hudson better, I’m going to share a few of his accomplishments.

Jai was involved in studying philosophy under Professor Grimes at the Noetic Society

He helped with Occupy LB, Occupy L.A. and Irvine and helped establish Black Lives Matter Long Beach.

He was the creative director for Community Consciousness.

He created an art collective called Of Royalty

He created an anti-racist movement called Carry On.

And just last year, during the pandemic, Jai travelled the United States with the Hoop Bus pushing a new social contract for this nation.

Currently he is working on a new designer brand called Made Of Blessings.

Jai said Of Royalty was for liberation, Carry On was for hope and change, Made of Blessings is for a transition into a spiritual healing.

Most recently, Jai co-wrote the Elijah McClain Bill. See the Bill link below..

Elijah McClain Accountability Act or SB 21-0010: https://oag.ca.gov/initiatives/active-measures

Original URL below.

[https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/21-0010%20%28Elijah%20McClain%20Accountability%20Act%29.pdf]

More links for Jai.

Of Royalty Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/OfRoyaltyShop

Carry On Movement: www.facebook.com/groups/Carry-On-Movement

Instagram: #madeofblessings

It's not really about the medium for Karena, she likes to work with different mixed media. But always resourceful, Karena says the best form of what she does is recycling - and the best form of recycling is reuse.

"It's hard not to be impacted by the environment," Karena said.

One of her most recent works is titled Spoken Ice, linked below, a video project for soundpedro: an ear-oriented multi-sensory arts festival, held annually at Angels Gate Cultural Center, in San Pedro, CA. For the event, Karena wanted to do something on climate change and glaciers, and to reach and affect people through environmental works.

Through a total of three soundpedro videos and many of her other works - some which we discuss in this episode - Karena's art urges consideration the world, nature and its condition and invites the viewer to reflect upon it, provoke conversation and self-reflection.

• View a special Walk Thru video by Karena inside her studio to have a look at the works discussed.

Current exhibitions:

• View Karena's most recent video, Spoken Ice, a video collaboration with artist Sheri Ki Sun Burnham.

• Rooted at the Greenly Art Space in Signal Hill, the exhibit runs through October 9.

• Opening Nov 13, a group show at SoLA Contemporary as part of a CRP (Critical Response Process), the culmination of a year of making work during the pandemic.

Information

Karena's website:https://www.karenamassengill.com

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/karena4art/

YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=karena4art

Maria Kriya has been practicing yoga for 19 years. For her, yoga was a transformational tool for mental health and resilience. She began her career as a special needs teacher. Soon after, at 29, she started practicing yoga. Then she began to teach it, first to children and then adults. She didn’t have formal yoga training but she had been practicing for five years. Maria says that when she discovered yoga, she realized that combining yoga tools for kids with special needs would be a great skill for kids to learn, to help themselves emotionally.

Find Maria at, [email protected]

As an arts journalist primarily, I connect communities to cultural events in their neighborhoods. Being a journalist requires a broad view and within that context, I have also written about subjects ranging from the environment and social justice to politics.

We who are nourished by the arts need to take ourselves on regular culture quests. Each time I do, it grounds me and it opens my mind. AGCC is my way to bring this joy to you.

However we experience it, art conceives what is possible within each of us and for the planet. In addition, issues surrounding social justice and the environment will inform many of our discussions.

Combining all of this together, alongside the arts, comes naturally to me.

This show is for consumers of art in all of its forms.